Greenpeace Activists Target Shell Petrol Stations

Greenpeace activists have shut down 42 Shell petrol stations in London and are attempting to shut off petrol to a further 105 in a protest over Arctic oil drilling plans.

Nine arrests have been made as petrol stations were targeted across the city, including Old Ford, Fulham Cross and Hornsey. Protesters have also scaled the roof of the Shell station on Queenstown Road near Battersea Park.

The petrol station protest is part of Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign, aimed at preventing oil drilling and industrial fishing in the Arctic.The Guardian reports that Greenpeace understand that Shell and Russian oil company Gazprom will shortly begin drilling in the Alaskan Arctic.